Okay so I FINALLY got my sheevaplug after about 4 months, paid express shipping and everything, and had to pay a $25 duty fee at the door :/

Okay so it has Debian linux, should I upgrade to ubuntu? If so, is there a step by step tutorial anywhere as I can not find one

Currently I am running it all off the internal flash, but I plan on getting a SD and external harddrive soon

I was told to install lighttpd, so i tried to remove apache2, but it seems to stay, so whatever i stopped the service and installed lighttpd, php5, mysql-server, mysql-client

I can access the main index.html page (the one that says it works) but if i try to access ANY other file it says 403 - foribben...i just cant figure it out why, i even tried giving the entire folder 777 permissions...nothing

I also tried installing phpmyadmin, it installs fine...but how do i access it? I remember for my old windows server runing apache it was just http://HOST/phpmyadmin, but it dosnt seem to be the same on this thing

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

EDIT: Okay, I got lighttpd to finally work with php and phpsysinfo is running fine (but VERY slow to load, i guess its because it loads all that javascript to switch templates on the fly, i should modify it to load only one)...still cant figure out how to get phpmyadmin to work!

Okay so I FINALLY got my sheevaplug after about 4 months, paid express shipping and everything, and had to pay a $25 duty fee at the door :/

Congrats, hope you enjoy it!

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Okay so it has Debian linux, should I upgrade to ubuntu? If so, is there a step by step tutorial anywhere as I can not find one

My personal opinion: The Ubuntu branch works better. Example: Ubuntu recognizes every USB device I've tried attaching. The Debian default load didn't. One area where the default load is superior: It makes use of the Marvell chip's hardware crypto engine, something that hasn't made it into the Ubuntu release yet.

My advice on upgrading: Use the latest copy of Rabeeh's installer program. You can find more information here.

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Currently I am running it all off the internal flash, but I plan on getting a SD and external harddrive soon

I think you'll find either is a faster solution than the internal NAND memory. And, they are replaceable: On my system, I find that even when it is quiescent, it is averaging a write to the root FS every 45 seconds or so. So, by using an SDcard or USB device as your root FS, you are saving a fair amount of wear-and-tear on the non-user-replaceable NAND.

Okay so I FINALLY got my sheevaplug after about 4 months, paid express shipping and everything, and had to pay a $25 duty fee at the door :/

Congrats, hope you enjoy it!

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Okay so it has Debian linux, should I upgrade to ubuntu? If so, is there a step by step tutorial anywhere as I can not find one

My personal opinion: The Ubuntu branch works better. Example: Ubuntu recognizes every USB device I've tried attaching. The Debian default load didn't. One area where the default load is superior: It makes use of the Marvell chip's hardware crypto engine, something that hasn't made it into the Ubuntu release yet.

My advice on upgrading: Use the latest copy of Rabeeh's installer program. You can find more information here.

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Currently I am running it all off the internal flash, but I plan on getting a SD and external harddrive soon

I think you'll find either is a faster solution than the internal NAND memory. And, they are replaceable: On my system, I find that even when it is quiescent, it is averaging a write to the root FS every 45 seconds or so. So, by using an SDcard or USB device as your root FS, you are saving a fair amount of wear-and-tear on the non-user-replaceable NAND.

Good luck!

What good is this Crypto engine?If it dosnt seem like something I need, I will go ahead and install ubuntu right away!

I doubt the lack of access to the crypto engine will affect many people. It might be significant if you intend to run encrypted disks. Earlier, I compiled the following list of apps that *might* benefit from the engine:

I'm not even sure which of these are tied to hardware encryption under the default load. In any event, for most folks it is probably not an important criteria. But, hey, the hardware is there, so I'd personally like to take advantage of it. (But, not enough to keep me from moving to Ubuntu!)

I doubt the lack of access to the crypto engine will affect many people. It might be significant if you intend to run encrypted disks. Earlier, I compiled the following list of apps that *might* benefit from the engine:

I'm not even sure which of these are tied to hardware encryption under the default load. In any event, for most folks it is probably not an important criteria. But, hey, the hardware is there, so I'd personally like to take advantage of it. (But, not enough to keep me from moving to Ubuntu!)

YMMV

Okay well I dont really need any type of encryption

I will move over to Ubuntu once I get my SD card, I currently only have mac and windows but I can just emulate linux to get the thing installed. Is there a specific distro build of ubuntu i need to run oin the plug? Or will any one do? (So can I download one to emulate to get it installed, while installing the same one? ...kk nvm as I type this I know there is a different one...)

So can you point me in the right direction to getting the corrent ubuntu build I would need to install on the plug?

And which distro of linux should i run on my virtual machine to install it? Like, which one would be the smallest download for my needs?

Also, do you know how I can get the password for mysql? After I installed it, it gave me no way to choose my password or anything and none of the defaults work.

If you are successful at using the alpha-6 installer from a virtual machine, please let us know the particulars. I'd think the VM would have trouble with the SheevaPlug's serial USB port (which actually presents two devices: the console and the JTAG interface).

The Alpha-6 installer instructions can be found here. It installs the 2.6.30-rc6 load, which is actually quite good.

I used a vm of Debian 5.0 running in Windows XP to connect to the serial of the plug. Works, no problems. Just make sure the VM has the focus when you insert the usb cable, vmware will then allow the vm to use the usb.